Seek APIseek.com ↗
Search Seek.com job listings by keyword. Returns job titles, companies, salaries, locations, classifications, work types, and application links.
What is the Seek API?
The Seek.com API provides access to Australia's largest job board through 2 endpoints, returning up to 20 job listings per page with fields including title, company, location, salary, description, classification, and work type. The search_jobs endpoint accepts keyword queries and page numbers to retrieve paginated results, while get_job_counts returns distribution counts across locations, classifications, and work types for a given query.
curl -X GET 'https://api.parse.bot/scraper/7799f9c0-6302-4590-8c94-0904b7c4df22/search_jobs?page=1&limit=5&keywords=engineer' \ -H 'X-API-Key: $PARSE_API_KEY'
Typed, relational, agent-ready
A generated client with real types, enums, and the links between objects — the structure a flat JSON response can't carry. Autocompletes in your editor and reads cleanly to coding agents.
- Fully typed · autocompletes
- Objects link to objects
- Typed errors & pagination
Typed Python client. Set up the SDK in your uv project, then pull this API’s typed client:
uv add parse-sdk uv run parse init uv run parse add --marketplace seek-com-api
uv run parse add --marketplace pulls a pinned snapshot of this canonical API — it won’t change underneath you. To customize it, subscribe and swap to your own copy.
from parse_apis.seek_com_job_search_api import Seek, Job, MarketSnapshot
seek = Seek()
# Search for jobs by keyword with automatic pagination
for job in seek.jobs.search(keywords="data scientist", limit=5):
print(job.title, job.company, job.location, job.salary, job.is_featured)
# Get job market snapshot (counts by location, classification, work type)
snapshot = seek.marketsnapshots.get(keywords="python")
print(snapshot.locations, snapshot.classifications, snapshot.work_types)
Search for jobs on Seek.com by keyword. Returns paginated job listings including title, company, location, salary, description, classification, work type, and application link. Pagination via page number; each page returns up to 20 results. Omitting keywords returns all recent listings sorted by relevance.
| Param | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| page | integer | Page number for pagination. |
| limit | integer | Results per page, maximum 20. |
| keywords | string | Search query (job title, skills, or company). Omitting returns all recent listings. |
{
"type": "object",
"fields": {
"jobs": "array of job listing objects with id, title, company, location, salary, description, classification, subclassification, work_type, listing_date, listing_date_display, is_featured, application_link",
"page": "integer current page number",
"total": "integer total number of matching jobs",
"keywords": "string search query used",
"page_size": "integer results per page"
},
"sample": {
"data": {
"jobs": [
{
"id": "92521602",
"title": "AI Software Engineer",
"salary": "$200,000 – $300,000 per year",
"company": "Opus Recruitment Solutions",
"location": "Sydney NSW",
"work_type": "Casual/Vacation",
"description": "Forefront of AI\nHuge learning opportunity",
"is_featured": true,
"listing_date": "2026-06-04T09:56:12Z",
"classification": "Information & Communication Technology",
"application_link": "https://www.seek.com.au/job/92521602",
"subclassification": "Engineering - Software",
"listing_date_display": "5d ago"
}
],
"page": 1,
"total": 536,
"keywords": "python developer",
"page_size": 5
},
"status": "success"
}
}About the Seek API
Endpoints
The API exposes two endpoints. search_jobs accepts a keywords string (job title, skills, or company name), an optional page integer for pagination, and an optional limit up to 20. Each response includes a jobs array of objects with id, title, company, location, salary, description, classification, subclassification, work_type, and an application link. The response also returns total (total matching jobs), page, page_size, and the keywords used. Omitting keywords returns the most recent listings across all categories.
Facet Counts
get_job_counts accepts the same optional keywords parameter and returns three objects: locations, classifications, and work_types. Each maps a numeric ID (as a string key) to an integer count of matching jobs. These counts are useful for building filter UIs or understanding the shape of a job market before retrieving full listings — for example, seeing how many accounting roles exist in Melbourne vs. Sydney without fetching every listing.
Coverage and Freshness
Seek.com is Australia's primary job board, so listings skew toward Australian roles, with some New Zealand coverage. The location, classification, and subclassification fields on each job listing correspond to Seek's own taxonomy. The IDs returned by get_job_counts map to the same taxonomy, so the two endpoints are designed to be used together: run get_job_counts first to surface available filters, then pass refined queries to search_jobs.
The Seek API is a managed, monitored endpoint for seek.com — not a raw scraper you maintain. Every endpoint is automatically health-checked on a schedule, and when seek.com changes and a check fails, the API is automatically queued for repair and re-verified. It is built to keep working as the site underneath it changes.
This isn't an official seek.com API — it's an independent, maintained REST wrapper over public data. Where the source has no official API (or only a limited one), Parse gives you a stable contract over a source that never promised one, and keeps it current. Need a new endpoint or field? You can revise it yourself in plain English and the agent rebuilds it against the live site in minutes — contributing the change back to the shared API is free.
Will this API break when the source site changes?+
Is this an official API from the source site?+
Can I fix or extend this API myself if I need a new endpoint or field?+
What happens if I call an endpoint that has an issue?+
- Build a job aggregator that surfaces Australian listings filtered by classification and work type
- Track salary ranges for specific job titles across locations using the
salaryfield - Power a job alert system by monitoring
totalcount changes for saved keyword queries - Generate labor market reports showing job distribution across cities using
get_job_countslocation data - Compare hiring activity across industries by querying classification counts for different keywords
- Build a recruiter dashboard showing open roles by company using the
companyfield fromsearch_jobs - Populate a job board widget with recent listings by calling
search_jobswithout keywords
| Tier | Price | Credits/month | Rate limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 100 | 5 req/min |
| Hobby | $30/mo | 1,000 | 20 req/min |
| Developer | $100/mo | 5,000 | 100 req/min |
One credit = one API call regardless of which marketplace API you call. Exceeding the rate limit returns a 429 response. Authenticate with the X-API-Key header.
Does Seek.com have an official developer API?+
What does the `get_job_counts` endpoint actually return, and how do I use the IDs?+
get_job_counts returns three objects — locations, classifications, and work_types — each mapping a numeric string ID to an integer job count. These IDs correspond to Seek's internal taxonomy. You can use the counts to understand job distribution before querying search_jobs, but the IDs themselves are not translated to human-readable labels in the response.Can I filter `search_jobs` results by location, classification, or work type?+
search_jobs endpoint accepts keywords, page, and limit as inputs; there are no filter parameters for location, classification, or work type. You can fork this API on Parse and revise it to add those filter parameters if your use case requires scoped results.Does the API return individual job application details or candidate-side data?+
How many results can I retrieve per request, and how does pagination work?+
search_jobs returns up to 20 results per page. Use the page integer parameter to step through results, and check the total field in the response to calculate how many pages exist for a given query.